A former DJ and his obscure Nepalese nonprofit used a social media app popular with video gamers to drive massive protests and become the unlikely power brokers in installing the country's new interim leadership. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/… #asiapacific #politics #sushilakarki #nepal
Young activists who toppled Nepal's government now picking new leaders
A Nepalese activist group used Discord and Instagram to mobilize deadly Gen Z–driven protests that toppled Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli.Aftab Ahmed (The Japan Times)
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in reply to The Japan Times • • •Arab spring → crushed. 💩
Ukrainian Maidan, squeezed over the line and going strong despite 2014+2022 invasions by russia 🥳
Hong Kong anti-dictatorship mass protests → crushed by the CCP 💩
Burma/Myanmar protests → civil war, struggling military dictatorship backed by CCP and russia 💥
Now Nepal youth/social media takeover (!) → ??
In the 1990s Nepal dumped the (Hindu) royalty, elected pro-CCP communists, became a vassal of the CCP while depending on India...
Now they're between the aggressive CCP and the hindu-nationalist India with both vying for influence/control. 💥??
(+ many more anti-regime uprisings which haven't changed the status quo)
#Ukraine #ArabSpring #Hongkong #ccp #burma #myanmar #Nepal #India